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Culture, England, Roman Roads, Great Road and Pye Road

Langham, Essex Stratford St Mary, Suffolk Capel St Mary, Suffolk Sproughton, Suffolk Bramford, Suffolk Great Blakenham, Suffolk Combretovium Chelmsford, Essex Sprinfield Road Boreham, Essex Hatfield Peverel, Essex Witham, Essex Kelvedon, Essex Marks Tey, Essex Colchester, Essex Aldgate Gate Gallows Corner, Essex Brentwood, Essex Ingatestone, Essex White's Place, Margetting Yaxley, Suffolk Dickleburgh, Norfolk Long Stratton, Norfolk Norwich, Norfolk Caister, Norfolk

Great Road and Pye Road is in Roman Roads.

Culture, England, Roman Roads, Great Road and Pye Road, Great Road

The Great Road leaves Colchester along the A12 passing Langham, Essex [Map] to Stratford St Mary, Suffolk [Map] where it crosses the Suffolk River Stour and make a change in direction before passing Capel St Mary, Suffolk [Map]. After Capl St Mary the road turns north following a direct parh past Sproughton, Suffolk [Map], Bramford, Suffolk [Map], Great Blakenham, Suffolk [Map] to Combretovium [Map] aka Baylham.

Culture, England, Roman Roads, Great Road and Pye Road, Great Road 3B Chelmsford to Colchester

Culture, England, Roman Roads, Great Road and Pye Road, Great Road 3A London to Chelmsford

The Great Road left London at Aldgate Gate [Map] after which it crossed the River Lea then continues to Gallows Corner, Essex [Map], through Brentwood, Essex [Map], Ingatestone, Essex [Map], White's Place, Margetting [Map] after which it reaches Caesaromagus aka Chelmsford, Essex [Map].

Culture, England, Roman Roads, Great Road and Pye Road, Pye Road 3D Baylham to Caistor St Edmund

From Combretovium [Map] aka Baylham the Pye Road continues along what is now the A140 through Yaxley, Suffolk [Map] where it makes a slight change in direction, through Dickleburgh, Norfolk [Map], Long Stratton, Norfolk [Map] to Norwich, Norfolk [Map] from where it continues east to Venta Icenorium [Map] aka Caistor St Edmund.